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Case #6529 Rating: 3.9 out of 5
Dog-fighting
Oklahoma City, OK (US)Incident Date: Tuesday, Dec 31, 1974
County: Oklahoma
Disposition: Convicted
Defendant/Suspect: Donald Lee Maloney
In 1975, the State of Oklahoma charged Donald Lee Maloney, defendant, with maliciously placing a dog in a pit with another dog and encouraging the dogs to fight, injure, maim, or kill one another. The trial court convicted defendant of cruelty to animals and fined defendant. Defendant appealed. On appeal, the court held that Okla. Stat. tit. 21, § 1682 (1971) was constitutional as applied to the case but reversed and remanded the case because the court determined that the defendant had been improperly convicted under the anti-cruelty statute rather than the dogfighting statute.
Appellant Donald Lee Maloney, hereinafter referred to as defendant, was charged, tried and convicted in the District Court, Cleveland County, Case No. CRF-72-459, for the offense of Cruelty to Animals in violation of 21 O.S. 1971, § 1685, and from the judgment and sentence (Which was imposed on March 13, 1974), fixing his punishment at a fine of Five Hundred ($500.00) Dollars, he appeals.
Since this case must be reversed and remanded for a new trial, we deem it unnecessary to set forth the evidence adduced at trial; suffice it to say that the allegations of the charging part of the Information, n1 and the evidence adduced on trial, were sufficient to fall within the provisions of 21 O.S. 1971, § 1682, but were not within the purview of 21 O.S. 1971, § 1685.
For all of the above and foregoing reasons, this case is REVERSED and REMANDED for a new trial consistent with this opinion
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